City's new back-pay bill: $81K

Federal probe finds unpaid overtime violations

9:23 PM,
Feb. 11, 2014

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The city of Battle Creek will pay an additional $81,000 in unpaid overtime after an audit from the U.S. Department of Labor found more violations of federal wage laws.

The city will issue $80,592.81 in payments to 265 current and former employees by the end of next week following the Labor Department's investigation that looked into the city departments' overtime payments between Oct. 17, 2010 and Oct. 20, 2012. The department found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which sets basic minimum wage and overtime pay standards.